Gary Larson

DULLES, Va. – I was planning to write the last post on this blog before I left Oakland last night. I composed the whole thing and was about 30 seconds away from posting it when the flight crew said they had shut the door and all electronic devices needed to be turned off.
I set my [...]

Finally

SAN MATEO, Calif. – It took a mighty long time, but I’ve finally made it to the Bay Area.
I last blogged when the train left Colfax. Soon after that, we  were given permission by Union Pacific to divert onto a different track and pass the freight train that had been delaying us so much.
We ended [...]

Rocky Mountain High

(Did you really expect me to use anything else for the headline?)
We finally reached Denver at around 11:30 a.m. MT. We spent about 20 minutes there, during which time the train was cleaned a bit and some supplies were restocked. We also got newspapers delivered, in this case the Rocky Mountain News.

I was a bit [...]